Corn-popper



C. L. COLE. CORN POPPER..

QNov Model.)

Patented Feb. .18, 1896.

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lUNITE STATES ATENT; OFFICE.

cIIAaLEs L. COLE, 'or BUsI-INELL, AssIeNoR or oNEI-IALF To sYLvEsrER o. SPRING, or rIIoRIA, ILLINOIS.

CORN-POPPER..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,7 7 2, dated February 18, 1896.

Application filed June 28, 1894. Serial No. 515,908. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES L. COLE, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Bushnell, in the county of McDonough and State of Illinois, 'have invented certain new and useful .Improvements in Corn-Poppers; and I do v receptacle, and to retain the unpopped corn within the pepper until the same has been properly popped by the heat, and to accomplish this end with simplicity and economy of construction, which I do by employing the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l shows a side elevation of the popper with the face or end thereof broken away to show the internal arrangement of parts thereof and their particular formation, arrangement,and construction. Fig. 2is a heri- Zontal sectionthrough the line Qc a: of Fig. 1. Fig-3 is a perspective view of the general form and construction of the pepper with one portion of one of the faces or sides thereof broken away to show the arrangement of inclosed parts. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing a detail of construction and of a particular interior part of the device.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings, referring to which- 1 and 2 refer to the heads or sides of a cylinder, and 3 to a iine-wire netting concentric with the shape of the heads of the cylinder thus formed and connecting them.

4 is a shaft upon which the cylinder-frame, as above described, is mounted, the said shaft being suitably supported in boxing 5, connected or braced to walls of the pepper construction and fixed to the rear wall, 2, by means of the nut-screw upon the end of the shaft 4 in manner shown in the drawings, but the particular manner of support or connection by which this shaft upon which the cylinder revolves is connected with the said cylinder is not material, but may be connected therewith in any suitable manner. The cyl- Inder-shaft may be mounted in suitable frame construction, or any auxiliary means may be provided for mounting the cylinder for rotation, the lparticular manner of such mounting not being illustrated, as it is not a part of my invention.

6 is a dividing-partition connecting the sides l and 2 of the cylinder and concentric with the circle described by the wire-netting 3, but of a smaller circumference, thus providing a considerable space between the said partition 6 and the outer covering, 3, the said partition thus being formed of some suitable feraminous material, with the perforations therein considerably larger than those in the wire-netting inclosing covering 3. The said partition 6 does not form an entire circle within the cylinder, but leaves the opening 7, and connected with one of the ends of said partition 6 is the lift er wall 8, which also connects with the outside wire-netting 3, which said lift directs the corn from the outside wall or netting 3 or from the space between the said netting and the partition 6 'upon the inner surface of the said partition 6, which acts as a conveyer therefor as the cylinder is revolved.

9 is a conical foraminated wall er partition disposed centrally in the pepper-cylinder and opens out therefrom through the side l thereof, the other side, 2, serving te close the other end of the conical chute.

l0 is a foraminated wall connecting the conveyer 6 and the conical chute 9 and carried almost, if not quite, the entire width of the pepper-cylinder and on a slight decline toward the rear wall, 2, thereof. The conicalshaped foraminated chute 9 does not describe a complete circle, but is open at one portion thereof to provide for receiving the discharge of corn from the conveyer 6 at the termination thereof, such deposit therein being assisted by the wall 10 inclined toward the said chute.

11 is a perforated radial partition connecting one end of the chute 9 with the sleeve 12 around the centrally-disposed shaft 4, which IOO partition prevents any corn from being dropped back upon the conveyer G as the popper-cylinder is revolved. i

13 is a dividing-partition connecting the side walls of the cylinder and concentric with the circle described by the outside wire-net ting 3, the conveyor 6 and the conical-shaped chute i), the said partition forming a partial circle, being open at one portion thereof like the said eonveyer G and the conical chute 9, but different therefrom and from the outside case or wire-netting 3 by not being foraminated, perforated or punctured, but present-4 ing a continuous surface, the said partition 13 acting as a shield to prevent thc dropping of unpopped grains through the perforations in the conveyer G and into the chute 9 to be mingled with the popped corn, and also to receive and deposit any unpopped grains that may be carried over the conveyer and into the chute and there dropping through the perforations therein upon the said partition 13.

14 is a cap or covering provided to close an opening in the side l of the cylinder, which is designed to be adj usted, as shown, near to the lifter or wall 8 of the cylinder, said opening being designed for relieving or removing from the cylinder any grains that have not been popped.

15 is a rim provided around the opening in the side 1, and is practically a continuation of the chute 9 and serves to convey the popped corn outwardly some distance from the side of the popper to facilitate its proper deposit in a waiting receptacle.

In operation, the cylindrical popper may be suitably mounted for rotation and in such a manner that the outside surface thereof--that is, the wire-netting S-will revolve in close proximity to or through a flame generated by any means desired, so as to obtain the necessary heat requisite to properly pop the corn, and the said cylindrical popper may be so adj usted with relation to the flame or source of heat that it may be shifted farther from or closer to it or entirely separated therefrom, as desired, to best facilitate the perfect and complete popping of the corn and for pre venting the burning thereof.

The various parts er the several dividingpartitions of the cylindrical popper having first been adjusted in the relative positions shown in the drawings, and those partitions requiring that they shall be foraminated be ing provided with the proper-sized perforations, and a suitable quantity of corn being deposited within the said cylinder popper by being deposited through the opening in the chute 9 and dropping upon the conveyer (5 and passing through the large perforations therein down upon the outside wire-netting, and the cylinder being revolved in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. l, the corn deposited will be caused to traverse the inside surface of the wire-netting 3 throughout one complete revolution of the said cylinder, during which said revolution a portion of the corn by being subjected to the heat of the adjacent iiame may be popped. The whole supply, both of popped and `unpopped corn, at the conclusion of one revolution, will be de posited upon the conveyor 6 provided with sufficiently large perforations to provide for the rapid escape of the largest grains of unpopped corn, which carried upon the said conveyer will cause the said unpopped corn to be separated from thepopped corn and to be properly deposited upon the outside casing 3 to be further subjected'to the heat to acconimodate forfthc poppingthereof, and the popped corn, at the conclusion of the next second revolution,will be passed into the conical chute 9, where the shape of the said chute will tend to convey or conduct the said popped corn out of the opening in one end of the said chute into a receptacle provided. This operation being continued and a fresh supply of corn being provided to be popped, a continuous supply will be had from the chute 9 as the cylinder is being revolved.

IIavin g thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a corn-popper, a revoluble case having heads an exterior and interior conveyer, a centrally-disposed chute all of said parts being foraminated, the outside conveyer being continuous, the interior conveyor being open at one portion thereof, with one end connected with the exterior conveyer by means of lift S, and the other end connected with the chute by means of the doubly-inclined partition 10, the said chute being provided with the foraminated partition 1l, and having the partition 13 carried around the said chute and being made solid except that an opening is left in one portion of the circumference thereof, all substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES L. COLE. lVitnesses:

1V. V. Tnrr'r, 1V. A. STINE.

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